Hi friends…. I love how listening to Mitski is on your list Holly. I am reading this as I sit at the Calgary, Canada airport, waiting to board a flight to San Francisco so that we can go see Mitski play live this weekend. My 15 year old kid is a super fan and we’re being fun parents. 💗
I'm not sure what to think about the burgeoning popularity of psilocybin dosing. Small amounts of mushrooms have become decriminalized here in Denver where I live. At the school I did my undergrad degree at (a little hippie alternative Buddhist-inspired institution) you can now get a certificate in administering psychedelic-assisted therapies (this is for folks with a MA psychology degree) for $10,000!!! I think the one person who has had so much good stuff to say on all this is Ram Dass. You can take all kinds of beautiful trips, but eventually you have to come back down. They open a doorway, but you can't really stabilize into that "altered" state. But you can't deny the therapeutic value of really coming to see that consciousness and who we really are is far deeper and wider and vaster and complex and mysterious than we really get to experience in our normal, limited waking state. Ultimately Ram Dass was a proponent of yoga, meditation, and sangha/beloved community as a way to integrate and stabilize into the expanded states of consciousness that you can touch into on a psychedelic trip. But look what we've done to yoga in the United States in the past couple of decades. So who the heck knows? All in all I'm anticipating a major and over-the-top hype in the years to come.
I found the article on cannabis addiction to be so interesting! I had a boyfriend who was in that same boat. But it was so hard to talk to him about it. At the end of the day, however, I see way more people struggle with alcohol. I'm a very occasional weed smoker. It wasn't something I did in high school, college, young adulthood, etc. I guess that's a very good thing. Thanks for sharing that! Also, the article on Brazil. So interesting!
Wow! This is amazing! Everything I’ve clicked on was amazing. Thank you for putting this together. City of Girls by Liz Gilbert haunts me in beautiful ways.
This week's The Small Bow (AJ) newsletter had me laughing out loud, cringing and kind of glowing in that "I feel seen and heard" and "how the fuck did he do that?" kind of way. God I used to sweat BUCKETS at little kids birthday parties. But my little beauty used to be the gutsy little all singing, all dancing, I will not leave until the bitter end kind of 5 year old so... that was rough. We all survived it though and she'll be turning 16 next month. Holy moly.
This email is the highlight of my week. It always helps me change my mind about something. Amazing collection of pieces as usual Holly
Hi friends…. I love how listening to Mitski is on your list Holly. I am reading this as I sit at the Calgary, Canada airport, waiting to board a flight to San Francisco so that we can go see Mitski play live this weekend. My 15 year old kid is a super fan and we’re being fun parents. 💗
I'm not sure what to think about the burgeoning popularity of psilocybin dosing. Small amounts of mushrooms have become decriminalized here in Denver where I live. At the school I did my undergrad degree at (a little hippie alternative Buddhist-inspired institution) you can now get a certificate in administering psychedelic-assisted therapies (this is for folks with a MA psychology degree) for $10,000!!! I think the one person who has had so much good stuff to say on all this is Ram Dass. You can take all kinds of beautiful trips, but eventually you have to come back down. They open a doorway, but you can't really stabilize into that "altered" state. But you can't deny the therapeutic value of really coming to see that consciousness and who we really are is far deeper and wider and vaster and complex and mysterious than we really get to experience in our normal, limited waking state. Ultimately Ram Dass was a proponent of yoga, meditation, and sangha/beloved community as a way to integrate and stabilize into the expanded states of consciousness that you can touch into on a psychedelic trip. But look what we've done to yoga in the United States in the past couple of decades. So who the heck knows? All in all I'm anticipating a major and over-the-top hype in the years to come.
I found the article on cannabis addiction to be so interesting! I had a boyfriend who was in that same boat. But it was so hard to talk to him about it. At the end of the day, however, I see way more people struggle with alcohol. I'm a very occasional weed smoker. It wasn't something I did in high school, college, young adulthood, etc. I guess that's a very good thing. Thanks for sharing that! Also, the article on Brazil. So interesting!
Thanks Holly, a beautiful start to my day.
Wow! This is amazing! Everything I’ve clicked on was amazing. Thank you for putting this together. City of Girls by Liz Gilbert haunts me in beautiful ways.
I’m just so happy and grateful that this space on the internet exists. That is all ❤️
This week's The Small Bow (AJ) newsletter had me laughing out loud, cringing and kind of glowing in that "I feel seen and heard" and "how the fuck did he do that?" kind of way. God I used to sweat BUCKETS at little kids birthday parties. But my little beauty used to be the gutsy little all singing, all dancing, I will not leave until the bitter end kind of 5 year old so... that was rough. We all survived it though and she'll be turning 16 next month. Holy moly.